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A major milestone for disruptive payments platform Dwolla: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims to replace the outdated – and much slower – ACH process. ACH, or Automated Clearing House, is the traditional means for making electronic payments here in the United States. A 40-year old system, ACH enables money to move from Bank A to Bank B, but the transactions take two to five days to complete. FiSync basically blows that system up, offering banks, credit unions and service providers access to a real-time alternative.
Dwolla announced the updated FiSync integration for financial institutions back in March, and is only a few days behind its promise of the go-live date for its debut banking partner. Originally, the plan was to bring Waterloo, Iowa's Veridian Credit Union online on June 4. It's mid-June today as Veridian goes live, but that's not a major delay by any means, especially when you're talking about building an entirely new money transfer system from scratch.
According to the company's blog post, the Veridian integration will switch on the real-time transactions for over 160,000 banking customers. The system is not only quicker than ACH, Dwolla explains, but actually protects customers better due to a verification process that allows banks to protect clients by requiring that other financial institutions verify account information prior to engaging in transactions. Banks can also hold deposits, if need be.
Also, unlike ACH, FiSync doesn't take banking holidays or weekends off. It's real-time, 24/7. (Finally.)
Veridian is the first banking partner with access to the real-time transactions portion of Dwolla's FiSync system. The company previously signed up a number of banking partners to a system also called "FiSync" (for example), but that earlier version of the product did not include the real-time component. In other words, this is the first bank to sign up for what's essentially a very different service than what was available before. Dwolla's communications director, Jordan Lampe even just admitted to me that they really should have branded this new, real-time version of FiSync something else, to eliminate confusion. (I made some suggestions, too. Let's see if they use them!)
The company outlined several of the benefits of the new system and Dwolla itself, including the following:
- Free real-time bank transfers: FiSync members can move funds to and from their bank accounts to the Dwolla platform, friends or businesses for no cost and without the traditional 2 to 3 day wait times.
- Improved security and safety: With PINs, passwords, email notifications and other authentication processes, FiSync adds new layers of security not embedded in traditional bank transfer networks.
- Harmless transactions: Removing the sensitive financial information, or "data exhaust," from its transactions, Dwolla users and merchants exchange money without many of the liabilities associated with card networks (e.g. card theft, data breaches, etc.).
- Business friendly: Free or 25 cents per transaction, as well as near instant liquidity allows online, retail or business to business merchants to stay competitive.
- Mobile payments: Dwolla users are able to purchase goods and services or share money with their friends via the network's Android and Apple applications. (Note: A new business using Dwolla for electronic cash payments is NY's GetTaxi, for example)
- Pay friends or family: Dwolla users securely send money to Facebook friends, Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, SM-enabled phones, nearby devices and email addresses.
- Free distribution and integration: FiSync is freely available to financial institutions and service providers at fisync.dwolla.com. Interbank transactions are comparable to traditional ACH costs.
As you can see from the above, FiSync is only one piece to the network that Dwolla is building. The company is designing what money management (mobile, banking, transfers, peer-to-peer, payments, etc.) would look like, if it was built today, without having to take into account legacy systems. By designing its payments network from the ground up, Dwolla has been able to eliminate a number of issues, like the ACH delays, that come from having to support legacy systems, hardware, processes, and their associated challenges.
According to Lampe, Veridian is only the first of Dwolla's FiSync banking partners that will use the new system. Others will arrive in the "next coming few months," he says.


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Q: A few of my friends and I wondered if you could address this question: Where did the word "dude" come from? When did people start using it in everyday language to refer to either a woman or a man? Thanks!
A: "Dude," meaning a swell or a fop or a dandy (in other words, an overdressed, showy person), originated in the US in the latter part of the 19th century.
Its first appearance in writing, as far as we know, was in an 1877 letter by the artist Frederick Remington: "Don't send me any more [drawings of] women or any more dudes." This is according to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang.
"The etymology is a mystery," according to Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. But Partridge suggests it may be from the word "dud" (a weakling or a useless person), with some influence by the word "attitude."
It's also been suggested that "dude" may have come from "Yankee Doodle." Or perhaps the use of "duds" to mean clothes could play a part. After all, to "dude up" was to dress up. A "dude wrangler" was a cowboy on a "dude ranch" who entertained the "dude" tourists.
At any rate, "dude" has changed a lot over the years, and in more modern times has shed its pejorative beginnings.
A 1993 addition to the Oxford English Dictionary has nine citations since 1918 for "dude" in the sense of "any man who catches the attention in some way; a fellow or chap, a guy. Hence also approvingly, esp. (through Black English) applied to a member of one's own circle or group."
These days the word is generally used to refer to a male person, though the plural "dudes" has been used on college campuses to refer to people of both sexes, much the way "guys" is sometimes used today.
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A bigger, harder 'Lights Out'
A father-son math project makes 'The New York Times' puzzle section
William & Mary math student Robert Torrence is shedding some light on a decades-old game that continues to puzzle thousands each year.
Torrence '15, along with his father Bruce Torrence, Garnett Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, created an algorithm to solve larger and more challenging digital versions of the electronic game Lights Out, created in 1995 by Tiger Toys.
The New York Times recently published Torrence's version to the game in Wordplay, the paper's crossword blog section. Wordplay features a math-related puzzle every week in an ongoing section called Numberplay.
The Times included an online version of Lights Out for readers to try for themselves and see if they could come up with Torrence's solution. At the end of the week, the paper published Torrence's solution and explanation.
Navigating a maze of switches
Lights Out is a game consisting of a network of switches that when turned on or off affect neighboring switches. Torrence explained that his puzzle was based on the generalized Petersen graph. The game consists of an inner and outer layer of switches. Players win the game by selecting the pattern of switches that will turn all the lights out in the smallest number of moves.
A quick search online offers strategies for a smaller 5x5 version, but Torrence realized no one had proved solutions to more complicated versions of the game. After studying the algorithm for the 5x5 game, Torrence and his father found a strategy that seemed to work for any initial set up of the game and more complicated versions as the number of switches increased. The next challenge was to prove that their solution could work for more complicated set-ups.
"A really good way of going about things sometimes in research is to discover an intuition for something, believe it's true, and then once you think something's true, developing a proof is a lot easier," said Torrence.
'In-out' strategy (Heavy math alert!)
Torrence and his father came up with what they call the "in-out" strategy. For the mathematically literate, here's what they did: By moving all the lights either to the inner or outer ring and repeating the process four times, every solvable puzzle on the P(12,5) graphs can be solved. Torrence also noticed the puzzle worked on any solvable P(2n, n) graph, where 2n is the number of vertices in a Petersen graph with n vertices in each inner or outer circle.
The Lights-Out puzzle was a challenge for even the educated audience. Many readers of the New York Times article stumbled through the puzzle, but one commenter, "D-ferg", was able to independently produce the Torrence solution.
Torrence went further with this discovery by proving that if you can solve the puzzle, you can solve it by only clicking lights that are already on. He credited the amount of time he spent just playing the game and trying different strategies for his success.
"One of the main reasons this kind of mathematics is great is that it's so accessible in the front end," said Torrence, "and in the back it has some nice mathematics!"


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The Seattle Seahawks have used the soft underbelly of their December schedule to prove just how explosive they can be.
Pete Carroll's team played the part of neighborhood bully for a second consecutive week, hanging a 50-17 loss on the Buffalo Bills at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
The Seahawks have scored 108 points in the past two weeks. This has been a result of big plays on both sides of the ball, but Russell Wilson deserves special recognition.
The rookie quarterback was responsible for four touchdowns Sunday, including three on the ground in the first half alone. He has raised his game to a higher level in recent weeks, going from a potential liability to a legitimate team strength.
"I'm just thrilled that he's been able to continue to grow," Carroll said of Wilson, via The Associated Press. "For a time, we were just trying to get the offense going and not screw it up and make sure he could keep growing. Well, we're past that now."
The win moves the Seahawks to 9-5, ensuring their first winning season since 2007. More importantly, they're now in great position to qualify for the playoffs, with next week's showdown against the NFC West-leading San Francisco 49ers (10-3-1) in Seattle looming large.
Carroll's strange decision to try a fake punt with a 30-point lead will become a talking point in the immediate aftermath of this game, but let's not lose the big picture here. The Seahawks have morphed into legitimate NFC contenders before our very eyes.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's release Friday of the May jobs report comes at a time of anxiety over the U.S. economy and whether the Federal Reserve will soon scale back its extraordinary support.
Economists expect another month of job gains roughly in line with April's increase of 165,000. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 7.5 percent, a four-year low but still historically high.
Some economists have cautioned in recent days that job growth for May could fall short of expectations. Some noted that surveys this week showed that hiring at factories and service companies barely rose in May.
The Labor Department will release the employment report at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
Job growth has been steady this year, despite higher taxes and federal spending cuts. Through April, the economy has added an average of 196,000 jobs a month, ahead of last year's pace.
Gains in jobs, home prices and some other areas of the economy have led Fed policymakers to consider scaling back the central bank's bond purchases later this year. The bond purchases have been intended to drive down long-term interest rates and encourage borrowing and spending.
Speculation that the Fed could taper its stimulus has led investors to sell stocks and push up bond yields. But slower job growth in May might make the Fed less inclined to reduce its bond purchases this year.
The economy grew at a solid annual rate of 2.4 percent in the first three months of the year. Consumer spending rose at the fastest pace in more than two years. But economists worry that steep government spending cuts and higher Social Security taxes might be slowing growth in the April-June quarter to an annual rate of 2 percent or less.
Consumers appeared earlier this year to shrug off the tax increase. But in April, their income failed to grow, and they cut back on spending for the first time in nearly a year. A Social Security tax increase is costing a typical household that earns $50,000 about $1,000 this year. For a household with two high-earners, it's costing up to $4,500.
Cuts in defense spending might have slowed factory output in some areas, according to a Fed report released this week. Factory activity shrank in May for the first time since November, and manufacturers barely added jobs, according to a survey by the Institute for Supply Management.
A separate ISM survey found that service companies grew at a faster pace last month but added few jobs. Service firms have been the main source of job growth in recent months.
Some positive signs of the economy's resilience have emerged. Service companies reported an increase in new orders, the ISM found. That suggests that businesses could expand further in coming months.
And steady gains in home sales and construction are providing support for the economy even as manufacturing weakens.
Home prices jumped by the most in seven years in April, according a report by CoreLogic released Tuesday. Higher home values can make households feel wealthier, spurring more spending.
They can also help sustain the recovery by encouraging would-be buyers to purchase homes before prices rise further. Rising prices also give developers an incentive to build. Homebuilders applied for the most permits in nearly five years in April.


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Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. 31: Matthew, Mark and Luke, Part I, tr. by John King, [1847-50], at sacred-texts.com
1. And having called the twelve disciples, 561 he gave them power against the unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure any disease and any sickness. 2. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3. Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, surnamed Thaddeus; 4. Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5. These, twelve in number, Jesus sent out, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, 562 and enter not into a city of the Samaritans: 6. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 563 7. And when you have departed, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8. Cure the diseased, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely you have received, freely give. 564
7. And he calleth the twelve, and began to send them out two and two, and gave them power against 565 the unclean spirits.
1. And having called the twelve, 566 Jesus gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. 2. And sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to cure the diseased.
The calling of the Apostles is here described to us, not as on a former occasion, when the Lord Jesus Christ, intending to prepare them for their office, selected them for admission into his private circle. They are now called to immediate performance, are ordered to prepare themselves for the work, receive injunctions, and, that there may be no want of authority, are endued with the power of the Holy Spirit. Formerly, they were held in expectation of future labor: now, Christ announces that the hour is come when they must put their hands to the work. It is proper to observe, however, that he does not as yet speak of perpetual apostleship, but only of temporary preaching, which was fitted to awaken and excite the minds of men, that they might be more attentive to hear Christ. So then they are now sent to proclaim throughout Judea that the time of the promised restoration and salvation is at hand at a future period, Christ will appoint them to spread the Gospel through the whole world. Here, he employs them as assistants only, to secure attention to him where his voice could not reach afterwards, he will commit into their hands the office of teaching which he had discharged. It is of great importance to observe this, that we may not suppose it to be a certain and fixed rule laid down for all ministers of the word, when our Lord gives instructions to the preachers of his doctrine as to what he wishes them to do for a short time. From inattention to this point many have been led astray, so as to demand from all ministers of the word, without distinction, conformity to this rule. 567
Matthew 10:1. And having called the twelve disciples The number, twelve, was intended to point out the future restoration of the Church. As the nation was descended from twelve patriarchs, so its scattered remains are now reminded by Christ of their origin, that they may entertain a fixed hope of being restored. Although the kingdom of God was not in so flourishing a state in Judea, as to preserve the nation entire, but, on the contrary, that people, which already had miserably fallen, deserved doubly to die on account of ingratitude in despising the grace which had been offered to them, yet this did not prevent a new nation from afterwards springing up. At a future period, God extended far beyond Zion the scepter of the power of his Son, and caused rivers to flow from that fountain, to water abundantly the four quarters of the world. Then God assembled his Israel from every direction, and united into one body not only the scattered and torn members, but men who had formerly been entirely alienated from the people of God.
It was not without reason, therefore, that the Lord, by appointing, as it were, twelve patriarchs, declared the restoration of the Church. Besides, this number reminded the Jews of the design of his coming; but, as they did not yield to the grace of God, he begat for himself a new Israel. If you look at the beginnings, it might appear ridiculous that Christ should bestow such honorable titles on persons who were mean and of no estimation: but their astonishing success, and the wide extension of the Church, make it evident that, in honorable rank and in numerous offspring, the apostles not only are not inferior to the patriarchs, but greatly excel them.
Gave them power The apostles had almost no rank among men, while the commission which Christ gave them was divine. Besides, they had neither ability nor eloquence, while the excellence and novelty of their office required more than human endowments, 568 It was therefore necessary that they should derive authority from another source. By enabling them to perform miracles, Christ invests them with the badges of heavenly power, in order to secure the confidence and veneration of the people. And hence we may infer what is the proper use of miracles. As Christ gives to them at the same time, and in immediate connection, the appointment to be preachers of the gospel and ministers of miracles, it is plain that miracles are nothing else than seals of his doctrine, and therefore we are not at liberty to dissolve this close connection. The Papists, therefore, are guilty of forgery, and of wickedly corrupting the works of God, by separating his word from miracles.
2. The first, Simon, who is called Peter The Church of Rome displays extreme folly in drawing from this passage their doctrine of the primacy. That Simon Peter was the first among the apostles we readily allow, but what was true in reference to a few persons, cannot, on any proper grounds, be extended to the whole world. Besides, the circumstance of his being mentioned first, does not imply that he possessed authority over his companions. Granting all that they ask regarding Peter, his rank will be of no avail to the Roman See, till they prove that wicked and sacrilegious apostles are Peter's successors.
5. Into the tray of the Gentiles This makes still more evident what I have lately hinted, that the office, which was then bestowed on the apostles, had no other object than to awaken in the Jews the hope of an approaching salvation, and thus to render them more attentive to hear Christ. On this account, he now confines within the limits of Judea their voice, which he afterwards commands to sound everywhere to the farthest limits of the world. The reason is, that he had been sent by the Father to be
the minister of circumcision, to fulfill the promises, which had anciently been given to the fathers, (Ro 15:8.)
Now God had entered into a special covenant with the family of Abraham, and therefore Christ acted properly in confining the grace of God, at the outset, to the chosen people, till the time for publishing it were fully come. But after his resurrection, he spread over all nations the blessing which had been promised in the second place, because then the veil of the temple had been rent, (Mt 27:51,) and the middle wall of partition had been thrown down, (Eph 2:14.) If any one imagine that this prohibition is unkind, because Christ does not admit the Gentiles to the enjoyment of the gospel, let him contend with God, who, to the exclusion of the rest of the world, established with the seed of Abraham alone his covenant, on which the command of Christ is founded.
6. But go rather to the lost sheep The first rank, as we have said, is assigned to the Jews, because they were the firstborn; or rather, because at that time they alone were acknowledged by God to belong to his family, while others were excluded. 569 He calls them lost sheep, partly that the apostles, moved by compassion, may more readily and with warmer affection run to their assistance, and partly to inform them that there is at present abundant occasion for their labors. At the same time, under the figure of this nation, Christ taught what is the condition of the whole human race. The Jews, who were near to God, and in covenant with him, and therefore were the lawful heirs of eternal life, are nevertheless pronounced to be lost, till they regain salvation through Christ. What then remains for us who are inferior to them in honor? 570 Again, the word sheep is applied even to the reprobate, who, properly speaking, did not belong to the flock of God, because the adoption extended to the whole nation; as those who deserved to be rejected, on account of their treachery, are elsewhere called the children of the kingdom, (Mt 8:12.) In a word, by the term sheep, Christ recommends the Jews to the apostles, that they may dedicate their labors to them, because they could recognize as the flock of God none but those who had been gathered into the fold.
7. Preach, saying This is the preaching, 571 I spoke of, by which Christ intended to arouse the minds of the nation to expect an approaching redemption. The kingdom of heaven is at hand For the kingdom of heaven Luke substitutes the kingdom of God; but the meaning is the same. It was to inform the Jews, first, that they owed their restoration to divine agency, and not to the kindness of men; secondly, that under the reign of God their condition would be prosperous; and, thirdly, that the happiness which had been promised to them was not earthly and fading, but heavenly and eternal.
8. Cure the diseased As he has bestowed on them power, so he enjoins them to be faithful and liberal in dispensing it, and charges them not to suppress that power, which had been lodged with them for the common benefit of all. By those miracles he shows why he was sent by the Father, and what was the design of his Gospel. It is not without design that he enjoins them to raise the dead and heal the sick, instead of bringing diseases on the healthy and inflicting death on the living. There is an analogy and resemblance, therefore, which those miracles bear to the office of Christ; and this is intended to inform us, that he came to bestow upon us every blessing, to rescue us from the tyranny of Satan and of death, to heal our diseases and sins, and to relieve us from all our miseries.
Freely you have received 572 That they may be more willing to communicate the gifts which he had bestowed on them, he declares that they were not entrusted to them for their own individual renown, but in order that they might be, as it were, a sort of channels for transmitting the free bounty of God. "Consider whence you derived this power. As it flowed without any merit of yours from the pure grace of God, it is proper that, through your agency, it should flow freely to others."
We know how unwilling every man is to communicate to others what he considers to belong to himself, and how any one who excels the rest of the brethren is apt to despise them all. No higher commendation could have been given to a liberal communication of spiritual gifts, than by the warning which Christ gives them, that no man surpasses another through his own industry, but through the undeserved kindness of God. Now Christ has presented to us in his ministers a proof of that grace which had been predicted by Isaiah, (Isa 55:1)
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milh without money and without price.
At the same time he shows, that no man will be a sincere minister of his word or dispenser of his grace, till he is prepared to bestow his labor gratuitously, 573 and that all hirelings basely corrupt and profane the sacred office of teaching. Yet it is not inconsistent with this gratuitous dispensation, that the teachers of the church receive public salaries, provided that they willingly and generously serve Christ and his church, and that their support is, in some sort, an accessory of their labor.
"Lors ayant appel, a soy ses douze disciples;" — "then having called to himself his twelve disciples."
"N'allez point vers les Gentils;" — "go not towards the Gentiles."
"Mats plustost allez aux ouailles de la matson d'Israel, qui sontperies;" — "but rather go to the flocks of the house of Israel, which are lost."
"Vous l'avez receu pour neant, donnez-le pour neant;" — "you have received it for nothing, give it for nothing."
"Sur les esprits immondes;" — "over the unclean spirits."
"Puis apres avoir appel, ses douze disciples ensemble;" — "then after having called his twelve disciples together."
"Voulant reigler indifferemment tous ministres de la parole selon ee qui est ici dk;" — "wishing to regulate indiscriminately all ministers of the word according to what is here said."
"Et cependant une charge si excellente et nouvelle requeroit des graces plus grandes qu'on n'en pent trouver en l'homme;" — "and yet an office so excellent and new demanded higher graces than can be found in man."
"Les autres en estans eslogncz et bannis;" — "the others being removed and banished from it."
"Qui n'avons point une telle prerogative;" — "who have not such a prerogative."
"La predication, ou publication;" — "the preaching, or publication."
"Vous l'avez receu pour neant;" — "you have received it for nothing."
"S'il n'est prest de s'y employer, et d'y mettre son labor gratuitement, et sans consideration de son profit;" — "if he is not ready to be employed in it, and to bestow his labor on it gratuitously, and without regard to his own gain."


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AUBURN, Ala. – The Georgia Bulldogs aren't really hosting a defensive coordinators' reunion Saturday night in Auburn. It just seems that way.
Auburn defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder got his start in major college football running Georgia's defense. Secondary coach Willie Martinez used to hold that job, too.
Both will face their former team and boss, Mark Richt, for the first time Saturday night.
They'll have far more on their minds than that reunion. The Tigers' inconsistent, youthful defense must find a way to contain one of the Southeastern Conference's top offenses.
Richt says there are few secrets in college football or the SEC, anyway. He says the Bulldogs' offense has changed since VanGorder left in 2004 and Martinez in 2009.
Auburn coach Gene Chizik, however, says that familiarity "certainly can't hurt you."


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What to do next
Well. After all the baby beets and fancy farro and salmon straight from the boat, I think you'll be somehow pleased to know that our diet for the next ten days consisted of a lot of French fries, and beer, and Frosted Mini Wheats. I should also mention the Newman's Own Arrowroot Alphabet Cookies, and the one night that we ate salt-and-vinegar potato chips, cornichons, and an oatmeal cookie for dinner, in our rental car, waiting for a ferry.
After all the hullabaloo, it was really kind of nice.
It's hard, let me tell you, to plan a honeymoon. I mean, planning a wedding is hard, but planning a honeymoon is not much easier. Not for us, anyway. We felt as though we had so many options, and so many places we wanted to go, but none of them felt quite right. A honeymoon, so it goes, is supposed to be some sort of exotic, romantic, sun-drenched escape with bottomless piña coladas, the proverbial trip of a lifetime. It's an exciting proposition to go away like that, with no obligations or agendas. It's also pretty daunting. We didn't want to waste our chance, or blow it on something only so-so. For a while there, we felt sort of paralyzed. One night – on the way to look at proofs of our wedding invitations, no less – we even fought about it. I'm not proud to say it, but I actually cried. Honeymoons are not for the faint of heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.
We wanted a road-trippy kind of honeymoon, but one without too much driving, and we wanted to be outside, and we wanted to walk a lot, and we wanted it to be pretty. First, we thought about Scotland, but being the land of haggis, it wasn't the best idea, food-wise. Then we thought about New Zealand, but it would be winter there. We thought about Italy or parts of France, but they would be packed with tourists. Then I saw an article in Saveur – it was last September's issue, I think – about Vancouver Island, a long strip of land off the coast of British Columbia. Apparently, we could find mushroom foragers there, and a farmhouse bed-and-breakfast, and even water buffalo. Needless to say, we were smitten. It felt a little silly to honeymoon so close to home, but it sounded just right. Plus, it might be nearby, but neither of us had been there, and anyway, it's hard to think of a better place to be in August than the Pacific Northwest. So we made our reservations, and on July 31, two days after the wedding – just enough time, you know, for doing our laundry – we boarded the Victoria Clipper, and away we went.
I understand now why people go on honeymoons. For one, you're exhausted. Second, you're really exhausted. And third, it's hard to do all that planning, and put in all that work, and party so happily with all the people you love, and then have it just – ta daaa! – be over. It's really sort of traumatic. Nobody warns you about that part. They just cheer and wave goodbye. I guess some newlyweds feel nothing but happy, but we felt a lot of things. We felt relieved, and of course ecstatic, and triumphant, and newly wed. But we also felt weepy and out of sorts, with no idea what to do next. That's why, we learned, there are honeymoons. We needed ten days to nap, to read, to play cards, to pet water buffalo, eat fries, and get used to ourselves again, just us two.
We started in Victoria. It's a pretty little city, the provincial capital, on the southern tip of the island. We arrived to sunshine and rolled our suitcases along the harbor to Swan's Hotel, our stop for the night. Our room had tall ceilings and exposed wooden beams, and I'm sure we would have really enjoyed it, had we not fallen asleep right after dinner. I blame that on the beer at Spinnakers, a pub just cross the Johnson Street Bridge. Their beer was stunningly good. We shared samplers of six different kinds – they were small glasses, I assure you – and by the last sip, we had quite a crush on British Columbia. I like to think that Washington and Oregon make wonderful beers, but these were stunners, every one. The food wasn't so nice, not unless you like your fries with a lump of pink aioli, but the beer warrants a return trip.
But the next day, we picked up our rental car and drove 30 minutes north, to a town called Brentwood Bay, where we had booked a night at the Boathouse.
To get there, you drive through a residential neighborhood to a particular house, and you park in the driveway. Then you knock on the front door, and Harvey and Jean, the couple who live there, help you carry your bags down the hill behind the house, 89 wooden steps in all, to a one-room house on the water. It's painted red, with a dartboard hung on the deck, a queen bed and a table for two, a tiny kitchen, and a sitting room the size of a closet, with two armchairs and big windows that tilt open to the bay. On the counter is a plate of homemade cookies from Jean, and the small refrigerator holds a pitcher of milk, to go with your coffee or tea.
The bathhouse is next door, about 10 steps up the hill, and the rowboat is right out front, at the end of the dock. If you're lucky, you'll see a few seals through the binoculars on the ottoman, and maybe some giant purple jellyfish under the house, and then, later, your husband will row – row! – you to dinner at the restaurant across the cove, and your heart will burst, core to cockles, clean out of your chest.
Never mind that said dinner isn't particularly good. (Shrimp + andouille + canned tomato sauce does not equal jambalaya, in case you ever wondered. Blessed be the convenience store nearby that sells Frosted Mini Wheats, a sturdy stomach filler in such emergencies.) When you've been rowed to dinner, such things can be excused.
We would have stayed longer, but the Boathouse was booked, so we headed to our next stop, in the Cowichan Valley, the agricultural heart of the island. We had reserved two nights at Fairburn Farm, the idyllic bed-and-breakfast profiled in Saveur, not far from the town of Cowichan Bay. It was at the end of a long, unpaved road, a white-and-red farmhouse with three guest rooms, a wood-burning brick oven, thirty-odd water buffalo, goats, sheep, chickens, a mutt named AJ, a wraparound porch, and a gray-haired farmer who rips around on a dirt bike. We were met at the door by Mara Jernigan, a professional chef, cooking teacher, and leading voice for the Slow Food movement in Canada, who also doubles as the keeper of the guesthouse. She was the reason we came.
Each morning, we woke to eat breakfast on the porch. It started with a spread of homemade granola, yogurt, fresh blueberry compote, and a pitcher of juice on the sideboard. Then Mara made a second course, hot this time: a frittata, say, made with farm eggs, their yolks like liquid goldenrod, or thin, crepe-like pancakes with a length of turkey sausage.
At night, Mara was in the kitchen again, cooking four- or seven-course meals for her guests on the porch. For us, she served heirloom tomatoes with buffalo mozzarella made nearby from the farm's own milk, doused with balsamic vinegar from Venturi-Schulze Vineyard, just down the road. (It's an amazing vinegar, by the way, totally worth the price and shipping.) Then she served a corn-leek soup topped with a single zucchini blossom. It tasted pure corn milk, what you get when you give the cob a good scraping, sweet and slushy and delicious. Then came a choice of lamb, again from the farm's own stock, or sablefish poached in miso from Denman Island, and finally a light, buttery cake layered with mascarpone and fresh berries. Then the stars come out over the mountain up ahead, and we drank mugs of the house mint "tea," fresh mint leaves steeped in boiling water. Then we slept, until we did it all over again.
The best part, though, was when AJ came zipping up the yard on his short, unlikely legs, chasing the buffalo from their pastures to the barn for milking.
Water buffalo are like big dogs, friendly and affectionate. They're enormous, really, so you have to be careful when they nuzzle you, lest they knock you over or skewer you with their horns. If there happens to be a calf running around, hold out your hand, and he'll lick it. Certain types of water buffalo, we learned, have purple tongues, the color of dried lavender.
But then, of course, it was time to leave. We had a reservation in Tofino, a little to the north and then three hours west, straight across the waistline of the island, on the coast. For fortifications, we stopped by Hilary's Cheese in Cowichan Bay, the shop-slash-deli of a local cheesemaker, as well as True Grain Bread, next door, for a baguette.
(Just so you know, The Udder Guy's Ice Cream Company, just a few doors up, also is worth a stop. We shared scoops of the mint chocolate ice cream, and of raspberry with chocolate. Pay no attention to the jelly bean they smash, willy-nilly, into the top of the scoop. No idea what that's all about.)
And then we came to Tofino. If you've ever been to Boulder, Colorado, imagine that, but with surfers instead of hikers and skiers. It's relaxed, welcoming, and a little touristy, and everyone there is outdoorsy and attractive, and all the little boys have long hair and tans. The beaches are lined with white sand and rimmed with evergreens, and the water goes on forever.
We stayed at a place called the Middle Beach Lodge, one of the more affordable options in a town of very expensive lodging, and nestled high on the rocks between two beaches, it was just what we wanted. In fact, unless you happen to dislike tide pools and sea anemones and beaches shrouded in morning fog and sunsets on the back deck and waking to the smell of fresh cinnamon rolls – which, I have to say, would make you straight-up wrong – it's close to heaven.
We took naps and peered into tide pools, and Brandon thrashed me at Double Solitaire. We bought our second box of Mini Wheats – who knew they were such a good snack? – and we also found SoBo. Short for Sophisticated Bohemian, it's a phenomenon not to be missed, a purple lunch truck in the parking lot of the Tofino Botanical Gardens that churns out everything from ceviche to soba noodles, cornmeal-crusted oysters, and polenta fries so stupendously good that I spoiled my lunch. At night, service moves to a cozy building in the garden, where they pour good wines and foamy beers. For a chilly evening, I especially recommend the hot soup – carrot-ginger with coconut milk, if they're making it – and a hunk of warm cornbread.
One day, we took a float plane out to a natural hot springs cove nearby, and had the water not been so crazily, ferociously hot, and had I not been savagely bitten – I still have scars – by giant(!) mosquitos(!) in the rainforest(!) there, oh Tofino, I might never have left you. And woe that we did, really, because we had a terrible time getting back to the mainland, waiting in parking lots at three different ferry terminals because it was the end of (what we had no idea was) a provincial holiday, and everyone was traveling. But one could do much worse, I think, than a dashboard dinner of vinegar-laced potato chips (bought in Cowichan Bay), cornichons (brought from Seattle), and an oatmeal cookie from SoBo, washed down with some water from a vending machine.
We did get to our last destinations, eventually – to Halfmoon Bay, on the Sunshine Coast, and then on Vancouver – and honestly, I could go on and on and on. We loved it all, and then, even more, we loved coming home to find our friend Sam at our kitchen table, with fixings for tabouli and mint juleps. But I brought home a souvenir for you, and rather than make you spend any more time in these rare, fleeting last days of summer – the very best part, the filet mignon of seasons – reading my never-ending honeymoon treatise, I want to hurry up and give it to you already.
I think you might know what it is.
It's those polenta fries. The recipe, at least. I know you're going to love them. Imagine creamy polenta with a cup of asiago stirred in, and plenty of butter to boot. Imagine, then, that you let it cool, and then you cut it into fat, sturdy batons – like Lincoln Logs, only edible. Then you fry them until they're golden and crisp and a little puffed at the seams, and then you eat them, alongside a hamburger, say, or another something hot from the grill. I hope you might want to make them for Labor Day – those of you in the U.S., anyway. I know I will.
Thank you, friends, for making this trip with me through our wedding, and what came before and after. You've indulged me, and for that I am so grateful. Coming here has bolstered, calmed, and inspired me. It's been a great summer.
Onward, September.
Polenta Fries
Adapted from Lisa Barber-Ahier, SoBo, and Saveur
SoBo serves these with a creamy garlic sauce – a cross, flavor-wise, between aioli and Ranch dressing – but we like them plain. We made them for a dinner party the week after we got home, and everyone agreed. (They also inhaled them.) These fries don't need any help.
Also, if you happen to have an outdoor grill with burner on the side, consider frying your polenta there. It'll keep that nagging fried-food smell out of your house. Or, if you don't feel like frying at all, you could just eat the hot, cheesed-up polenta on its own. It's spectacular.
4 cups vegetable stock
2 cups coarse cornmeal
1 cup finely shredded asiago cheese
8 Tbsp. (1 stick) unsalted butter, cubed
Canola oil, for frying
Combine the vegetable stock and salt to taste in a heavy medium-sized pot over medium-high heat. Bring just to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low, and slowly, whisking constantly, add the cornmeal in a thin stream. Cook, stirring constantly, until the polenta pulls away from the sides of the pot and most of the liquid has been absorbed, about 20 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the cheese and butter.
Transfer the polenta to a nonstick 8-inch or 9-inch square pan. (Or, alternatively, pour the polenta onto a sheet pan, and quickly shape it into a 9-inch square.) Smooth the top with a rubber spatula, and allow to cool slightly at room temperature. Then refrigerate, uncovered – you want it to dry out a little – until chilled and set, about 2-3 hours.
When you're ready to fry the polenta, pour oil into a heavy, large pot to a depth of 2 inches. Place over medium heat until the temperature hits 375 degrees Fahrenheit on a deep-fry thermometer. Meanwhile, turn the polenta out of the pan, and cut it into twenty 1"-x-4" sticks. Working with 4 polenta sticks at a time and taking great care – oil spatters are dangerous, and they hurt! – fry without stirring until the sticks are deep gold, a pretty shade of amber, about 4 minutes. Transfer them to a paper towel-lined sheet pan. (If any fries are stuck together, gently separate them.)
Serve immediately.
Yield: 20 fries, serving about 6 to 8 people


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September 17, 2013
Hartzell Air Movement announces that Neil Cordonnier has joined the company as vice president of operations. Cordonnier will be focused on improvements in the operation using Six Sigma, lean techniques, and other process improvements.
"We are very excited to have Neil as part of our team," said Sean Steimle, president of Hartzell Air Movement. "He will be focused on developing a flexible operational footprint and improving operational efficiencies across our manufacturing facilities."
Prior to joining Hartzell, Cordonnier was president of Ernst Metal Technologies. He has a diverse background working in the operations of small companies and large companies such as Delphi. Cordonnier received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Masters in Operations Management from Kettering University. He has a Six Sigma Black Belt and will soon receive his Six Sigma Masters Black Belt.
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use Bio::TreeIO;
# like from a TreeIO
my $treeio = Bio::TreeIO->new(-format => 'newick', -file => 'treefile.dnd');
my $tree = $treeio->next_tree;
my @nodes = $tree->get_nodes;
my $root = $tree->get_root_node;
This object holds handles to Nodes which make up a tree.IMPLEMENTATION NOTE
This implementation of Bio::Tree::Tree contains Bio::Tree:::NodeI; mainly linked via the root node. As NodeI can potentially contain circular references (as nodes will need to refer to both parent and child nodes), Bio::Tree::Tree will remove those circular references when the object is garbage-collected. This has some side effects; primarily, one must keep the Tree in scope or have at least one reference to it if working with nodes. The fix is to count the references to the nodes and if it is greater than expected retain all of them, but it requires an additional prereq and thus may not be worth the effort. This only shows up in minor edge cases, though (see Bug #2869).Example of issue:
# tree is not assigned to a variable, so passes from memory after # root node is passed my $root = Bio::TreeIO->new(-format => 'newick', -file => 'foo.txt')->next_tree ->get_root_node; # gets nothing, as all Node links are broken when Tree is garbage-collected above my @descendents = $root->get_all_Descendents;
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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich
Email [email protected]CONTRIBUTORS
Aaron Mackey [email protected] Sendu Bala [email protected] Mark A. Jensen [email protected]APPENDIX
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _new
Title : new Usage : my $obj = Bio::Tree::Tree->new(); Function: Builds a new Bio::Tree::Tree object Returns : Bio::Tree::Tree Args : -root => L<Bio::Tree::NodeI> object which is the root OR -node => L<Bio::Tree::NodeI> object from which the root will be determined -nodelete => boolean, whether or not to try and cleanup all the nodes when this this tree goes out of scope. -id => optional tree ID -score => optional tree score value
Title : nodelete Usage : $obj->nodelete($newval) Function: Get/Set Boolean whether or not to delete the underlying nodes when it goes out of scope. By default this is false meaning trees are cleaned up. Returns : boolean Args : on set, new boolean value
Title : get_nodes Usage : my @nodes = $tree->get_nodes() Function: Return list of Bio::Tree::NodeI objects Returns : array of Bio::Tree::NodeI objects Args : (named values) hash with one value order => 'b|breadth' first order or 'd|depth' first order sortby => [optional] "height", "creation", "alpha", "revalpha", or coderef to be used to sort the order of children nodes. See L<Bio::Tree::Node> for details
Title : get_root_node Usage : my $node = $tree->get_root_node(); Function: Get the Top Node in the tree, in this implementation Trees only have one top node. Returns : Bio::Tree::NodeI object Args : none
Title : set_root_node Usage : $tree->set_root_node($node) Function: Set the Root Node for the Tree Returns : Bio::Tree::NodeI Args : Bio::Tree::NodeI
Title : total_branch_length Usage : my $size = $tree->total_branch_length Function: Returns the sum of the length of all branches Returns : real Args : none
Title : subtree_length Usage : my $subtree_size = $tree->subtree_length($internal_node) Function: Returns the sum of the length of all branches in a subtree under the node. Calculates the size of the whole tree without an argument (but only if root node is defined) Returns : real or undef Args : Bio::Tree::NodeI object, defaults to the root node
Title : id Usage : my $id = $tree->id(); Function: An id value for the tree Returns : scalar Args : [optional] new value to set
Title : score Usage : $obj->score($newval) Function: Sets the associated score with this tree This is a generic slot which is probably best used for log likelihood or other overall tree score Returns : value of score Args : newvalue (optional)
Title : height Usage : my $height = $tree->height Function: Gets the height of tree - this LOG_2($number_nodes) WARNING: this is only true for strict binary trees. The TreeIO system is capable of building non-binary trees, for which this method will currently return an incorrect value!! Returns : integer Args : none
Title : number_nodes Usage : my $size = $tree->number_nodes Function: Returns the number of nodes in the tree Returns : integer Args : none
Title : as_text Usage : my $tree_as_string = $tree->as_text($format) Function: Returns the tree as a string representation in the desired format, e.g.: 'newick', 'nhx' or 'tabtree' (the default) Returns : scalar string Args : format type as specified by Bio::TreeIO Note : This method loads the Bio::TreeIO::$format module on the fly, and commandeers the _write_tree_Helper routine therein to create the tree string.
Methods for associating Tag/Values with a Tree
These methods associate tag/value pairs with a Treeset_tag_value
Title : set_tag_value Usage : $tree->set_tag_value($tag,$value) $tree->set_tag_value($tag,@values) Function: Sets a tag value(s) to a tree. Replaces old values. Returns : number of values stored for this tag Args : $tag - tag name $value - value to store for the tag
Title : add_tag_value Usage : $tree->add_tag_value($tag,$value) Function: Adds a tag value to a tree Returns : number of values stored for this tag Args : $tag - tag name $value - value to store for the tag
Title : remove_tag Usage : $tree->remove_tag($tag) Function: Remove the tag and all values for this tag Returns : boolean representing success (0 if tag does not exist) Args : $tag - tagname to remove
Title : remove_all_tags Usage : $tree->remove_all_tags() Function: Removes all tags Returns : None Args : None
Title : get_all_tags Usage : my @tags = $tree->get_all_tags() Function: Gets all the tag names for this Tree Returns : Array of tagnames Args : None
Title : get_tag_values Usage : my @values = $tree->get_tag_values($tag) Function: Gets the values for given tag ($tag) Returns : Array of values or empty list if tag does not exist Args : $tag - tag name
Title : has_tag Usage : $tree->has_tag($tag) Function: Boolean test if tag exists in the Tree Returns : Boolean Args : $tag - tagname
Title : clone Alias : _clone Usage : $tree_copy = $tree->clone(); $subtree_copy = $tree->clone($internal_node); Function: Safe tree clone that doesn't segfault Returns : Bio::Tree::Tree object Args : [optional] $start_node, Bio::Tree::Node object


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"Even more so than in the Western markets, Chinese consumers want the efficacy of a powerful clinical-type product combined with the perceived benefits of natural ingredients based in traditional Chinese medicines," says Susan Babinsky, senior vice president and head of Kline's Consumer Products consulting practice. "This is a very viable value proposition in China, and in fact may yield some novel new products and ingredient platforms that could offer potential in Western markets."
According to the National Statistics Bureau of the People's Republic of China, disposable per capita income has surged by an average of 11.3% over the last five years. This has helped to drive personal care expenditures up by 13.4% each year, Kline estimates. This trend is a major force in the market for professional skin care products--sold primarily through beauty institutes, spas, and salons or dermatologist and plastic surgery clinics--with Chinese consumers focusing more of their attention--and their income--on enhancing their appearance.
Kline's study, PROFESSIONAL SKIN CARE 2006, Volume III: China, pegs the overall market at $720 million at the manufacturer level and rising, quickly gaining ground on the $870 million U.S. market. In fact, the facial treatments sector in China is currently the third-largest in the world, larger than any single country in Europe, according to preliminary data from Kline's Gl COSMETICS & TOILETRIES 2006 service. While it is already a highly fragmented market space, with more than a thousand local brands competing with approximately 100 imports, the promise of a steadily expanding growth market is alluring. Kline's study forecasts annual growth of nearly 15% in China through 2011, compared to just over 9% for the U.S. market. This will push sales in the Chinese market past the $1.4 billion mark -- and the U.S. market -- within this timeframe.
However, with this promise come significant hurdles. The competition between foreign imports and local Chinese brands has created a polarized pricing structure that challenges marketers to find their niche for both pricing and distribution. "There are essentially two brand tiers: the foreign brands and the local brands," said Carrie Mellage, industry manager for the Consumer Products practice of Kline's research division. "Imports are higher-end and tend to be more expensive, appealing to upscale spas and beauty institutes. The local brands, which account for a large majority of products on the market, are low- to mid-priced and are generally positioned for beauty institutes where there is less emphasis on luxury and pampering."
The lion's share of skin care product sales through professional channels in China belongs to the beauty institutes, with about a 70% share. However, Kline's study suggests that the spa market is poised for a surge, which would give the foreign brands a chance at raising their market share. "We're expecting sales through spas in China to grow by more than 17% a year over the next five years," says Mellage. "The emerging middle class is beginning to discover the day spa, which offers some of the same amenities of the full spa experience but at a much more affordable price."


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on Jul 27, 2005 at 15:29 UTC ( [id://478641] : note . print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
The functionality provided by DateTime absolutely should be in core. Eek, no! The DT stuff needs to keep up with leap second and time zone change announcements, so it needs its own release schedule. We'd have to figure out a way to release data packages separately from what's in the core. Of course, in theory, I can see why this should be in the core, just because it's the kind of low-level data type that you want for programming. But given how easy CPAN is to use, is it really a big barrier? I think the big problem, as usual, is that there's lots of similar stuff to wade through. Fortunately, DateTime seems to have enough of a following these days that every time there's a datetime programming question, at least one respondent says "use DateTime", so the word is out.
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BOSTON (AP) - Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara gave his team a spark with his rare fight. Then he won the game with his usual blistering slap shot.
Chara and Patrice Bergeron scored third-period goals to lift the Bruins to a 3-2 comeback win over the New York Rangers on Friday.
With just under 9 minutes left, Chara unloaded a low slap shot from straight away about 10 feet inside the blue line that beat Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist between his pads.
After he fired his shot, Chara was knocked to the ice. When the puck went into the net, while still on his knees, he pumped his fists in the air in celebration.
"I saw an opening. I put a puck on net as quick and as hard as I could," said the 6-foor-9 Chara, still in uniform standing at his locker. "It was a good job by everybody."
In the second period, Chara squared off with the Rangers' Brian Boyle, knocking him to the ice and bringing a loud roar from the sellout TD Garden crowd. It was Chara's first fighting major of the season.
"I feel it's been a while since the last time we've had a fight like that," Boston goalie Tuukka Rask said. "It usually happens in the blink of an eye. It gives a team a boost and really wakes up a crowd, a crowd gets really loud. I think as a team _ I can't say we woke up _ but it definitely gave us an extra boost and we never looked back after that."
Brad Marchand also scored for the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins, who improved to 9-2-2 in their last 13 games.
Rick Nash and Ryan McDonagh scored for the Rangers, who completed a five-game road trip 3-2.
Rask stopped 17 shots for Boston, which hasn't lost in regulation at home in its last 10 games (8-0-2).
Lundqvist made 25 saves for the Rangers, who played their first game in Boston since the Bruins eliminated them in five games in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs last spring.
"I don't think we played the way we needed to in the second or the third," Rangers captain Ryan Callahan said. "They seemed to be all over us and they eventually get the tying goal and the winning goal there. We've got to be better in the second and third. It wasn't good enough."
Boston had tied it 2-2 on Bergeron's goal early in the third period. His shot was stopped by Lundqvist, but caromed into the net off defenseman Dan Girardi, who was in front with the Bruins Loui Eriksson.
"It's nice to get one of those," Bergeron said. "I haven't got one in a while."
Chara pushed Boston ahead later with his shot that Lundqvist said he misplayed.
"Bad read. For some reason, I was reading a high shot and then just made a bad move," Lundqvist said. "Instead of playing it the way I should, I read his stick, and I thought it was going high. I don't know if he fell down or kind of missed it, but it definitely fooled me a little bit. Tough one."
The Bruins were called for too many men on the ice with 4 1/2 minutes left, but held the Rangers without any good scoring chances.
With New York trailing 1-0 in the first period, Nash and McDonagh scored 1:22 apart. Nash, playing his sixth game after missing 17 with a concussion sustained on Oct. 8, tied it when he spun around near the right circle and slipped a wrister inside the left post.
McDonagh moved the Rangers ahead when his rising shot from the high slot beat Rask inside the left post. Benoit Pouliot screened Rask on the shot.
"He was right there," Rask said.
The Bruins had jumped ahead 1-0 when Marchand one-timed Chara's cross-ice pass under the crossbar from the bottom of the right circle for just his second goal in 11 games.
Midway into a well-paced but scoreless second, Boston's Torey Krug nailed the left post with a wrist shot. The Bruins had a handful of other good scoring bids that were shot just wide or turned aside by Lundqvist.
Both teams had excellent scoring chances in the game's opening minutes. Boston's Chris Kelly redirected a shot that hit the post and Carl Soderberg fired one that sneaked between Lundqvist's pads but trickled just wide. New York's Derick Brassard cut in alone for a decent bid that Rask stopped 6 minutes into the contest.
Boston was coming off a 6-1 loss at Detroit on Wednesday, its first of three games in four days.
"Those kinds of games do happen," Chara said. "It's good to bounce back and regroup from games like that."
NOTES: Bruins D Dennis Seidenberg returned after missing the last four games with an undisclosed lower body injury. ... Rangers LW Taylor Pyatt played his second consecutive match after missing eight with a concussion. ... New York faces Vancouver and former Rangers coach John Tortorella at home Saturday. Rangers coach Alain Vigneault was Vancouver's coach before joining New York. ... Boston hosts Columbus on Saturday. ... The Bruins won the first meeting 2-1 at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 19. The teams meet one more time in the regular season, March 2 in New York. ... The Rangers entered tied for the NHL lead with nine road wins.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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The bride wore white and used a wheelchair; the groom looked handsome as he steered a Segway in his tuxedo.
Over the weekend, Melissa Crisp and Owen Cooper had a wedding on wheels.
Their wedding invitations asked guests to join them as they "roll into marriage." "We had a roll theme going on," Cooper told TODAY.com. "That was Melissa's wording."
As the couple shared their first dance (to the Plain White Ts' "1, 2, 3, 4"), their family and friends were on their feet, cheering their spins. The couple had rehearsed their wheeled choreography thanks to 10 weeks of lessons at Axis Dance Company, an Oakland, Calif.-based touring dance company integrating dancers with and without disabilities.
"For the last part, I ditched the Segway and got on the end of Melissa's armrest and she drove me around," Cooper, 38, said. "That was fun."
Cooper and Crisp both have cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that often impairs movement and varies greatly from one person to another: He walks with a subtle limp and she uses a power wheelchair — and their wheels help them get around.
The new Mrs. Crisp-Cooper, who is a freelance writer, wrote the program, including their vows. The couple took turns reading them and shared the last line: "I promise to roll across our uncharted future, get lost along the way, and discover all the beauty, surprise, and love inherent in our journey."
That journey originated online, although they weren't looking for love there at the time. In 2008, Owen, who had always wanted to get his driver's license, came across a helpful post about driving with disabilities on disaboom.com, a resource for living with disability. He initially emailed the writer of the post — Crisp — to talk about driving. But then other topics came up.
"Driving was a goal of mine for a long time. At the beginning of our relationship, Melissa really supported me in that," says Cooper.
"That's just because I wanted a chauffeur," Crisp-Cooper, 37, joked.
The couple, who live in Oakland, say their relationship strengthens each other. Cooper interprets for Crisp, who's eloquent in the written word but speech-impaired due to her CP. She calls communication a perk in their relationship, along with his cooking (that's why Cooper picked the food for their wedding).
They're complementary, their friends told TODAY.com. "He is shy and I'm sure he's always kind of held back. She is the adventurous one. They balance each other out," said JoAnn Lyons, their yoga teacher at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, who married them. "They have a wicked sense of adventure."
Together the couple have ventured to Yosemite National Park (which has accessible paths), flown in a hot air balloon, gambled in Reno, and toured the Pacific Northwest, where Cooper had planned a perfect marriage proposal — that never happened.
Crisp had been wondering for about a year what was taking so long. "She started pointing at her finger and asking, 'Where's the hardware?'" Cooper said. "I dodged the question a lot."
Crisp caught on that Cooper was hiding something, and he eventually cracked, dropping down on one knee in their living room instead of his planned location at the Oregon Garden in Silverton, Ore. "Melissa and I are horrible at keeping secrets," he admitted.
Although the couple played an eclectic mix of music at their wedding in Berkeley, Calif., they also compiled a Do Not Play List of sappy inspirational songs. People don't overcome disability; they just work around it, the couple feel.
"We're both really into going about our lives as the people that we are," Cooper said. "It's not all about disability all the time. It's mostly just about living your life. Mostly, disability is second and life is first."
And disability came in second during their wedding dance as well. During their first lesson, they discovered that they could hold hands while in their "body extensions." Cooper learned to ride his Segway without hands, and Crisp-Cooper's signature move — a graceful curvy maneuver — became known as the "fishtail."
Their next adventure will be rolling around Hawaii on their honeymoon.
"We're renting our first car!" Cooper said.